Originally Posted by
LondonElite
If you meet the high bar of qualifications that someone like McKinsey sets, you'll no doubt embrace the totality of the question you are asking. You'll also probably understand that your typical working day, whether in London, Bangalore, Leeds, Berlin, or Bangkok is largely spend in a windowless war-room in your client's office, sparring with PowerPoint, Excel, and their cousins, including the company's last seven years of performance data. After thirteen weeks of flying in on the first Monday flight and returning back to base on the last Thursday flight to have an office day on Friday, you'll have a different view of the travel. I doubt you'll refer to it as 'jetting off'.
This is an unvarnished description of the actual way you will spend your time. Maybe it's pretty much like a staff position. Except, they get to drive home every evening.
I did a five year stint. When I started airports, flights, and hotels were things I looked forward to. After all, I love to travel. But business travel is a different kind of travel (something my somewhat envious friends just couldn't understand) and it didn't take long before airports, flights, and hotels lost all their romance and glitter. I loved the work I was doing. But I had it with business travel after 5 years straight.
Now, tech allows me to do most of the work from home and I have on site review meetings biweekly or monthly. Much much better.